Health Insurance
Health insurance news and analysis, with coverage of general health insurance trends, major medical insurance, disability insurance, dental insurance, vision plans, telemedicine plans, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, short-term health insurance, the Affordable Care Act public exchange program, and more.
Pilot program keeping seniors out of hospital
By Senior Market AdvisorFollowing a hospitalization, some 20 percent of seniors return to the emergency room within one month. Now, efforts to lower that number are being encouraged by the new health reform act, the Orlando Sentinel is reporting.
August 26, 2010
Health Insurance Agents and Social Media: Is It Worth It?With the recent slackening of Facebook's privacy policies and FINRA's crackdown on social media rules, many agents are concerned about getting involved with any form of social media.
August 26, 2010
13 Million Young Adults Have No Health CoverageYoung adults typically have no health insurance, and therefore often put off seeking the care they need during one of the most transitional periods of their lives.
August 26, 2010
13 Million Young Adults Have No Health CoverageYoung adults typically have no health insurance, and therefore often put off seeking the care they need during one of the most transitional periods of their lives.
August 26, 2010
PPACA: Minimum MLR Talks Turn to ReinsuranceA National Association of Insurance Commissioners panel is debating how to treat reinsurance arrangements in medical loss ratio calculations.
August 26, 2010
Insurance Twitter Round-UpTwitter can be a great source of information about the insurance industry. Here are some interesting tweets from the last week that showed up in ...
August 26, 2010
Insurance Twitter Round-UpTwitter can be a great source of information about the insurance industry. Here are some interesting tweets from the last week that showed up in ...
August 26, 2010
Better Hospitals for a Sick CitySome years ago, I worked as a freelance writer for a publisher in Detroit, Michigan, and every year, Id be invited out to the home ...